The Night Manager, Farzi & more
From Amazon Prime Video’s edge-of-the-seat thriller Farzi starring Shahid Kapoor to Aditya Roy Kapur‘s crime thriller The Night Manager, the world of OTT continues to get more intense and competitive. While Shah Rukh Khan‘s Pathaan continues to dominate the box office, many new shows and movies on Amazon Prime Video and other OTT platforms have managed to strike a chord with the audience. Below, is a list of trending new shows and movies on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and more, that promise to raise the entertainment quotient to the next level.
10 best and trending shows & movies of this week on Amazon Prime Video & more: The Night Manager, Farzi & more
1. Farzi – Amazon Prime Video
Created by famed director duo Raj & DK, Farzi is a crime thriller that follows a small artist who gets dragged into the world of counterfeiting when he makes a perfect fake currency note. But Sunny’s life takes a dangerous turn when a gangster and an honest police officer get involved in the chaos. Will the cop succeed in stopping Sunny? The series streaming on Amazon Prime Video features Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi, Kay Kay Menon, Raashi Khanna and Regina Cassandra in significant roles.
2. Dear Ishq – Disney+ Hotstar
Take a break from all the action and thriller dramas and enjoy this new romantic drama starring Sehban Azim and Niyati Fatnani. Disney+ Hotstar’s new offering Dear Ishq revolves around a popular fictional writer and a journalist with opposite ideologies about love. Watch their rivalry turn into love in this new series.
3. The Romantics – Netflix
Netflix’s new docuseries The Romantics features top names from Bollywood like Shah Rukh Khan, Ranveer Singh, Hrithik Roshan and others, who talk about their experience of working with Yash Raj Films. Directed by Smriti Mundhra, the newly released docuseries is a tribute to filmmaker Yash Chopra, who is regarded as the father of romance in Indian cinema.
4. Hansika’s Love Shaadi Drama – Disney+ Hotstar
Watch actress Hansika Motwani open up about her personal and professional life in this new reality show. Hansika’s Love Shaadi Drama also features never-seen-before BTS footage of her wedding with businessman Sohael Khaturiya which happened in Jaipur on December 4, 2022.
5. Class – Netflix
An adaptation of Spanish thriller Elite, Netflix’s new thriller series Class has secured the top spot on the giant OTT platform’s trending list. The series revolves around three students who face a series of new challenges when they join an elite school. But things take an ugly turn when all these students and their classmates get mired in a mysterious murder case. The show features Gurfateh Pirzada, Ritu Shivpuri, Anjali Sivaraman and Piyush Khati in lead roles.
6. The Wolf Princess – MX Player
Here’s an interesting historical series that focuses on a princess who gets bitten by a wolf. While the incident forces her to live a double life, the arrival of a young aristocrat gives her a ray of hope as he expresses his desire to help her. Will they succeed in finding a solution to Ling Long’s problem? The Chinese drama is an adaptation of the novel Exquisite Wolf Heart.
7. True Beauty – Netflix
Given the rise of the hallyu wave in the recent past, Netflix dropped an exciting new Korean series that focuses on a young girl who overcomes bullying by learning the art of makeup. However, she starts facing new problems in her life. Titled True Beauty, the series is an adaptation of a popular webtoon that stars Hwang In-yeop, Moon Ka-young and Cha Eun-woo in lead roles.
8. Thankam – Amazon Prime Video
Thankam is a Malayalam crime thriller that is streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Helmed by Saheed Arafath, the highly engaging movie features Biju Menon and Vineeth Sreenivasan in lead roles. The plot revolves around their characters: Muthu and Kannan, who are gold agents from Thrissur. Thankam tells the tale of their journey from Thrissur to Mumbai and how they overcome unexpected hurdles to complete a business deal.
9. Cirkus – Netflix
Filmmaker Rohit Shetty’s comedy movie Cirkus might have struggled to excel at the box office, but the movie has arrived on OTT and instantly grabbed the top spot on Netflix’s trending list. Based on William Shakespeare’s play The Comedy of Errors, the period comedy-drama revolves around two identical twins who set off a series of chaotic events when they end up in the same city. The movie features Ranveer Singh, Pooja Hegde, Jacqueline Fernandez and Varun Sharma in significant roles.
10. The Night Manager – Disney+ Hotstar
Aditya Roy Kapur’s newly released crime thriller series The Night Manager is based on John Le Carre’s novel of the same name. While an English adaptation starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie was released in 2016, the new Indian version features Kapur teaming up with Sobhita Dhulipala and Anil Kapoor for the riveting drama. The story focuses on an ex-military man who takes up a job at a hotel run by a dangerous arms dealer. However, he slowly moves up the ranks and becomes an integral part of the latter’s inner circle. But what is his real motive?
